That’s why creating an eye-catching effective color scheme is never an easy task for web designers. Each color carries an emotion and sometimes it gets very hard to choose one appropriate color that matches the sense of the business, layout of the design and likeness of the client.

So imagine if you choose the wrong color for your project? The effects will be disastrous. This is why a knowledge of color combination is required. The color scheme you pick for your project will affect the whole design, so you have to devote ample attention and care to color management.

So, how do you choose the right colors for your project? Here are a few tips:

Think about color combination: In project designs, color selection is more about how good two or more color shades look together. Whatever project you’re designing, always use two to three colors that nicely harmonize with each other only. If you don’t do this, you will end up making everything look crowded.

Use Colors that are already in your palette: This is quite simple. Go for colors that are already in the brand you are designing.

Use a few external Colors: This goes without saying. Make one color the primary color and let others be secondary.

So to help you make a better choice, here’s a collection of 50 color palette or color scheme generators. Some of them are online tools, some of them are apps and the rest are not. However, note that not all of them work the same way; although some are similar many others are unique.

That’s right. Adobe has its own color wheel. And its name, which used to be Adobe Kuler, is now Adobe Color Cc. It is of the best free color scheming tools in the market. Backed by mother Adobe herself. You can choose the scheme by selecting palettes or by choosing a single color. Easy to use – best in results.

It’s an online tool though, and you’ll need to sign in to be able to use it. If you have an Adobe account, things will be smoother. With Kuler, you can create your own tools and store them for future use as well.

This is a tool that solved the problems of many web designers. It is quite an advanced tool packed with a lot options yet it is easy to use. No sign-up required, no strings attached. Highly recommended.

This is a unique marvel; basically a color scheme analysis tool. It doesn’t just help you create a color scheme, it helps you to monitor and analyze your current color scheme of your running website or blog.

This tool is easily available on the net. It allows you to grab a swatch, adjust the color and in real-time it brings out a set of five colors that go hand in hand. You can download the palettes in photoshop, illustrator or EPS file formats.

Colr.org is a pared-down tool that allows you to see all the different colours available in an image. You can pick the colors you want and from there form a theme. Although it isn’t as polished as other tools, it is worth considering.

Here’s an online color palette generator. It is basically a color wheel where you pick a main color, a harmony and a color scheme will be generated for you. Apart from this, Color Calculator provides some information on choosing the right colors and how to adjust them.

This is a little color resource for designers that comes in handy. It is a browser extension that not only gives you hex numbers for each color; it also helps you to build up a color scheme from just one chosen shade.

If you don’t know which color scheme to use, Mudcube will show you the way through its collection of themes which you can access from a drop-down menu.

This widget is basically a great inspiration source. It shares the color patterns, gradients, palettes and images generated by those who have used it. It isn’t an out and out color generation tool but it’s useful in building websites.

Designspiration works in a reverse method from other color tunes. Instead of choosing the color scheme for your photos, it matches photos to the color schemes you feed into it.

You can select up to five hues from a useful full-page palette, and the site will generate all the images in its database that goes with the color scheme. The hex numbers are prominently displayed, and you can click on them individually. You can save these images for your personal collection as well.

This is a simple color palette generator. To use it you paste the URL of an image online, and the widget creates a color scheme based on that. That’s all it does, which is what you actually need. It’s really simple.

This color scheme tool suggests color schemes based on the image you use. It doesn’t have a wonderful first impression; it may not wow you, but it is a very useful color through- especially if you can’t find a certain color.

All you have to do is look for an image that you like and enter it into Color Hunter. The tool will take care of the rest. It will create a colour palette from your chosen image. This way, you can create your own colour theme without hassles.

This little tool is made so as to generate colors that will work with other colors you’ve selected. All you have to do is paste your preferred color in hexadecimal form and the widget will take care of the rest.

This is also a rather unique kind of a tool. It let’s you upload an image and it creates a chart-map of the basic colors used. This is mighty helpful if you have a picture of a design. You can also use it to copy a color scheme from a scenery.

This is an iOS tool that makes finding colours much more easier. There’s a large grid of colours that fills up your screen. With it you can sample colours, find out their RGB, Hex and HSLA values so that you can build color palettes and see how they work together.

This tool has a color picker from which you choose a color. The tool then generates a color palette only from the color you’ve picked. This color is then used to generate shades/tints, tones, and mixed or similar color palettes.

This is an online widget that basically lets you communicate your mood and feelings through colors. You can easily pick the best color shades corresponding to a feeling or for a desired emotional impact.

Tin Eye is a fascinating website that allows you to explore color combinations which were made from over 10 million Creative Commons images from Flickr. It is easy to use and delivers results quickly. Also, you can have fun while using it.

Here’s one color tool which many coders adore. It allows you to modify texts, links, colors, backgrounds and visually shows your selections on a template. It also has an area that shows the codes so you can clone the schemes.

The site’s not in English so you’ll have to translate it first before usage.

This is a simple color tool designed to help web developers locate any kind of color variation. This app allows you to determine lighter and darker colors based on any shade or hue. It’s very good for designing hovers, borders, and gradients.

Made by HailPixel, Color is a wonderful little web widget made for perfectionists. The website is very good for finding the perfect color.

To use it, hover your mouse over a your screen to nail down your chosen colour, then scroll to set your saturation. When you’ve done this, the site will automatically produce that all-important hex code which you can use for your projects.

This is another image to color generator. You upload an image (or input its URL) to generate color codes and a color scheme. The tool displays color schemes in three different ways- light, medium, and dark.

This is a very useful color schemes generator. Coolors.co is super fast and with it you can create, save and share your palettes in a few clicks. It has a Chrome extension and you can use it on iOS as well. You need to sign up before you can use it.

Although it comes at a certain price, there’s an offer where you get the first three months for free.

In this widget, there’s a tile from which you can choose different colors. You select two colors and a color palette will be generated for you. You can then download this palette and use it for your project.

This tool allows you to upload up to 20 images to generate a color palette. With the slider, you can change colors as you like. There’s also a sample selection that lets you choose colors from a small fragment of the image.

This is an online tool in which you select RGB and HEX codes in the toolbar and color schemes will be generated based on the codes you entered. RGB or HEX code. There’s also an option to lighten or darken the generated color scheme.

Color Wizard generates is used to generate color schemes based on a color you select. There are several variations- Hue, Saturation and Tint & Shade available. You can also generate color palettes in various categories like analogous, complementary, split complementary, triadic, Tetradic, and so on.

Color Combos allows you to search or create a personal Combo Library using its Color Tester tool. This tool has really unique features. There’s an option which allows you to show text over your colors, create a template of hex codes, as well as download a palette image. Furthermore, you can insert a URL and get a list of all of the colors used on that particular site.

EasyRGB gives you information about color technology. It’s been around for years and now has become a popular source of technical and commercial information about colors, color science and color programming techniques.

This is a color app exclusive to iOS only. With its single-wipe feature you can generate color schemes and share them. There are two styles of picking color palettes: finger and camera. The former requires a swipe and pinch motion to change colors. The latter entails a simple point and click motion to grab colors.